a chef, a videographer, and a photographer teamed up to transform military combat rations into magnificent dishes mimicking michelin-starred meals. chuck george, jimmy pham, and henry hargreaves sought to elevate service members’ MRE (meals ready to eat) into dishes fit for the world’s most revered restaurants. due to their unsavory taste and pre-packaged ‘flavors’, MRE have earned the nickname ‘meals rejected by everyone’. the team aimed to take the worst food, provided to the bravest people, and give it the kind of reverence granted to the ingredients from the finest kitchens.